Improvement in clothes-driers



UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

CONRAD SQHIFFERLY, OF NORTH MANCHESTER, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS. 4

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,694, dated September 14, 1875; application filed July 15, 1875. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD SGHIFFERLY, of North Manchester, county of Wabash and State of Indiana, have invented an Improved Clothes-Drier.

The following description, taken in connection with the accompanying plate of drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification, wherein are set forth the nature and principles of the invention, by which the same may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts thereof as are claimed as new and are desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States.

My invention relates to clothes-driers; and the nature thereof consists in certain improvements in the details of the construction of the same, and novel combinations of parts thereof, hereinafter shown and described. Q

In the accompanying plate of drawings, in which corresponding parts are designated by the same letters, Figure 1 is afrorit elevation. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation partially in section.

The frame consists of the base-piece A and the standards B B 0. Attached to the standards B B are the upright guide-pieces 0, within which are arranged the sliding bars D. The clothes-lines E E are secured to said upright slidingbars in such a manner that they will rise or fall with them, slits being cut in said guides c to permit their passage. Lines E E are secured to the uppenends of the bars D, and are led over pulleys F in the standards B B, through an aperture cut in the standard 0, to the line H, to which they are made fast. The said line H, after being thus made fast, is passed through said aperture and secured to said lines E E K designates a Windlass over which the said line H is wound. When it is desired to raise the lines, it is only necessary to turn the said Windlass and Wind the line H thereon, which, through the medi-. um of. the lines E E causes the sliding bars D to rise.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States A clothes-drier, consisting of the base-piece A, standards B B 0, guides c, sliding bars D, lines E, E E E and H, and Windlass K, all combined and operating together as de-- scribed.

In testimony that Iiclaimthe foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of March, 1875.

CONRAD SOHIFFERLY. Witnesses:

JACOB HARTER. 

